Carey, James (Barron) (1911–1973)

US labour leader. He helped organize and was first president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) 1935–41. At odds with the UE's communist leaders, he was elected president of the rival International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE) 1949–65.

He was born in Philadelphia.

Carey, James (1845–1883)

Irish Fenian activist, infamous as the informer who betrayed the Phoenix Park murderers. In 1882, a secret society of republican extremists known as the ‘Invincibles’ stabbed to death the new chief secretary of Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and his under-secretary Thomas Burke, as they walked in Phoenix Park in Dublin. Carey turned ‘Queen's evidence’ on his associates, and was assassinated shortly after.

Carey was born in Dublin, worked as a builder there, and became a town councillor. He joined the Fenians in about 1861, and was a founder-member of the ‘Invincibles’ in 1881. After he testified against them, five of the Phoenix Park murderers were hanged, while other conspirators were sentenced to penal servitude. In revenge for his treachery, Carey was shot dead by a bricklayer, Patrick O'Donnell.